Ranked as Canada's top woman golfer in 1974 and 1976, Betty Stanhope Cole is among the elite of Canada's female amateurs. Winner of the Canadian Junior Girls', Canadian Ladies' Open Amateur and Canadian Ladies' Close Amateur, Cole represented Canada five times between 1963 and 1976 and played on 25 Alberta interprovincial teams. In 1980, she gave up competitive golf to devote her time to the CLGA.